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How to Make a Single Crochet Stitch

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Mikey shows you how to make a single stitch as part of the basics in crochet. Single stitch is marked on patterns as SC.

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I’m about to do a project where we need to incorporate different size of trebles in order to make the flower that I’m about to make. So, I’m going to show a demonstration broken down by stitches.

So in this demonstration; this is how you do a single stitch. And now, when we go to the next, well, let’s just start of with the single stitch. So, we’ve just finished our line. So, what we need to do is we need to go back the other way because we always have to turn out—so we finished on this line. So, we’re now turning around. In order to do a single stitch, all you have to do is just start your line, you just chain one and then two. And then what you do, see you’ve already done this stitch here by going up two. So, you’re just going to jump into the next one. And all you got to do is stick in your needle into it so that you have two strings over the top, one on the bottom. Pull the material through and then two. So again, just stick it into the next hole that you see. Pull your material through and go through two. Stick it into the next hole and pull through two the next hole.

So, this is a great way to make a very dense kind of blanket or scarf. As you can see in relation to what I just did here, see how the stitching is very tight and it can make things a lot warmer for you. It’s a lot longer to make a blanket because obviously you don’t get the height because this is just one line here. So, you don’t get the height that you would when you do it at any other way. And when we come to the end of the line, see how you got this treble kind of holding it on the end. What you got to do is you got to turn it so that you get at least two strings over top of your needle. So, we got two, they’ve kind of been wrapped around there, one in the bottom, pull through and then pull through two. And that will be the end of your single stitch line.

Mikey, from The Crochet Crowd, teaches crochet projects, stitches and tips. Learn by following along with him. All of the projects he teaches are free to use.
Whether you are learning to crochet for the first time and/or are looking for further ideas for inspiration. Mikey has it all.